Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 839

[Chapter 820 “Forgery”]

Although theoretically speaking, Anomaly 077 is not a normal “dead person”, but everyone thinks it is possible – at least we should try.

So ten minutes later, the lazy sailor who was nesting in a corner of the lower deck was startled to open his eyes by a lot of rapid and chaotic footsteps. He stared and saw the captain with all the people on the ship. People ran over in a hurry, and before she had time to react, Fanna rushed over and picked up the mummy by its collar to lift him up.

The sailor had never seen such a battle before. After being picked up by Vanna, he noticed the concentrated, murderous (full of expectation) gazes from around him. The mummy’s back molars were trembling in an instant, and he was shrinking his neck. Trying to hide behind: “I… I just found a place to squint for a while. It shouldn’t violate the crew rules… and even if it does, you can’t come together to beat me, right?”

“Stop squinting. “You can’t sleep anyway.” Duncan came up from behind and looked at Anomaly 077, “I have business with you.”

“Business?” The sailor was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized what was happening around him. The look didn’t seem to be murderous, so he quickly stood up straight and straightened his clothes, while paying attention to Fanna’s next move next to him (he was still worried that this beautiful girl and strong man would break his bones if she touched him casually)

while being curious .

He opened his mouth and said, “What’s the matter? Didn’t we just reach the point of the God of Death? We are about to return home?”

Duncan waved his hand and said straightforwardly: “It’s because we have reached the point of the God of Death – we need a dead person now, let’s give it a try Can you re-awaken the guidance here?”

The sailor was stunned for a moment. He half didn’t understand what it meant, so he turned his eyes for help to Agou in the corner: “…What does it mean?”

“To put it simply, due to the decay of the God of Death, the death mechanism in the world disappeared, and due to the disappearance of the death mechanism, no more dead people arrived in this wilderness, so the gatekeepers and Wugui who were originally used to guide the dead The trail is gone.” Although Agou didn’t know why the other party asked him, he immediately explained patiently, “The ‘gate’ of the God of Death is hidden in a place that must be reached through a specific ‘guidance ritual’. We are now There must be a way to reawaken the gatekeeper here – simply put, it takes a dead man. “

The sailor blinked and finally understood the situation roughly, but after being stunned for a few seconds, he still raised his finger hesitantly and pointed at himself, proposing a fact: “I’m not completely dead… ..Although I have been working hard in this direction. Why don’t you let Ms. Agatha try? She is much deader than me. I still have some bones and flesh, but her soul has faded…

“We have discussed it, Agatha. Na and Shirley, they don’t quite fit the bill,” Moss sighed, but couldn’t help but look at the mummy in front of him with a complicated look on his face, “But then again, you certainly don’t seem to fit the bill—although in terms of nature, You are a corpse, but there are many corpses like you in the world now, and these undead people seem to be unable to attract the attention of the gatekeepers. “

“After all, even the gatekeepers in the wilderness of death are now .

Whether they still exist or not is unknown,” the sailor shrugged. “Maybe they all disappeared with Bartok’s decay. After all, strictly speaking, those ‘gatekeepers’ themselves are part of the death mechanism. …..

Moss frowned and fell into thought, while Duncan suddenly noticed that the vague black figure on the wall next to him seemed to be shaking slightly. He asked curiously: “Agatha? What’s the problem?”

“I Thinking…Agatha broke the silence, “Perhaps we can use rituals to forge a dead person based on the ‘sailor’. As for whether the ‘gatekeeper’ here still exists? We’ll know when the time comes. “

Duncan was stunned: “…can this be faked?”

“I was also a gatekeeper: – Although he is the gatekeeper on the side of the world of the living, in a sense, the living The gatekeepers of the world and the gatekeepers of the world of the dead are ‘corresponding’, which is also the embodiment of the ‘symmetry’ of the god of death,” Agatha said, “In what I…have experienced in my memory The training includes having a dialogue with the gatekeeper of the world of the dead after the soul leaves the body. Through those “dialogues,” I learned that the “gatekeeper on the other side” is not actually that accurate in judging the deceased. Sometimes they even Will linger around the undead, and this misjudgment… can be artificially guided. “

Shirley blinked and suddenly realized: “Wait, do you allow this? This sounds very evil!”

“Of course not, it’s deviant,” Agatha shrugged and said casually, “Deceiving the messenger of the Lord, violating the order of life and death, and may even be used to induce death—under normal circumstances, this would be punishable by death. When Shirley heard this, she quickly spoke:

“

Hey, I just wanted to ask, did your Death Priest get a promotion or lose his job after being sentenced to death…”

Duncan raised his hand and pulled Shirley behind him, interrupting her at the same time. (Although he also asked this question), then looked up at Agatha: “Is it okay?”

“No problem, because now even the order of life and death has disappeared, and even the old order has disappeared. The teachings of the sun and the authority of the Lord…Who else besides me remembers it? Agatha’s shadow whispered, and as the shadow shook, she seemed to smile bitterly and shook her head, “And now too No one can sentence me to death. “

Duncan looked at the hazy shadow quietly for a moment and nodded gently: “Okay, let’s get started. What exactly needs to be done?”

“First we must leave the range of the Lost Home. On this ship, even “Gatekeeper:” His eyes can’t penetrate easily,” Agatha said immediately. “Secondly, I need the help of ‘Sailor’. I want to make him a complete ‘dead’, but he doesn’t need to do anything, as long as he cooperates with my instructions. That’s it. Finally…it’s for the sailors.”

Her eyes fell on Anomaly 077 not far away: “You need to remember, no matter what you see in front of you, don’t follow it—— The gatekeeper’s guidance is irresistible to the dead. Even though you are not a real dead person and have the ability to resist this guidance, it will still be difficult. “

“Don’t worry, I won’t follow you. “Anomaly 077 immediately patted his chest confidently, “I did a good job on the Lost Home, why should I leave…

” What if the crew of the Sea Song appeared at the end of the Path of No Return? ?” Agatha said calmly, “What if you saw the captain of the Sea Song?”

The scene suddenly became quiet.

Even the sailor himself became quiet. The mummy stood still, but right there When Duncan thought he would waver in hesitation, the mummy shook his head more firmly,

“I won’t go with her. “

“Are you sure? This is a serious matter. “

“I’m sure,” the sailor grinned and smiled, “The captain told me to go to the city-state to deliver the message, and also gave me the route – she won’t let me go with her, that’s not her. “

“…Okay, that’s no problem.

The cold and disorderly wind blew through the wilderness under the night sky. The tall black and white grass undulated in the wind. An origami boat fluttered from the side of the Lost Home and landed on the ground. Duncan was the first to jump off the boat and stepped on it. On the solid ground of this desert of death.

Beside him, Agatha’s hazy figure “floated” down from the ship as if it was weightless, and landed lightly beside him.

The last one to jump out of the boat was the sailor – he turned over awkwardly and jumped to the ground, his big hip turning at a weird angle.

“Tsk… I should find someone to install a pair of metal joints before I set off,” the sailor muttered, reattachment of the whitened joints, and then limped over, “That’s all? What to do next?”

Agatha looked back and saw that the small boat was still stuck among the weeds. Only Cressia’s figure stood silently on the boat, while the others were still on the Lost Home – this was to prevent another incident. The situation on the “Island of Ashes” appears.

Then she withdrew her gaze, checked around the side, and pointed to a certain location: “It’s very simple, just come and lie down.”

“Oh.” The sailor agreed without any nonsense, and immediately cooperated with Agatha. He lay down on the pointed spot – not caring about the cold ground, letting himself be submerged by the black and white grass that was almost half a person’s height.

“…It really feels like a funeral,” the sailor muttered as he lay there, “the grass around it is like a coffin surrounding it.”

Agatha ignored the sailor’s mumbling.

After confirming that the other party was lying down, she took a gentle breath, and then began to calm down and concentrate. After a while, her figure, which had been blurry and hazy like a hallucination in the fog, gradually became clear.

The undetectable green flame flickered in her figure, as if briefly reflecting her entity. She transformed from a vague shadow into a translucent, ghostly individual. Although it was still illusory, it was enough. She completed the next “operation”.

A cane that reappeared from her memory appeared in her hand at some point.

“…I miss it a bit.”

Agatha looked at the cane in her hand and murmured softly. Then she took steps beside the sailor and slowly moved the cane across the ground.

Pale flames burned and rose in the traces she scratched. On the black and white earth, a triangular outline gradually took shape.

The sailor lay in the center of the triangle, and the tension made him finally close his mouth, waiting for the next moment.

Agatha began to add many symbolic runes around the triangle. She sketched it carefully-she had not done this for a long time.

“From now on, don’t speak or look around. Dead people can’t speak and look around – you will hear someone calling your name or see strange lights and shadows in front of you, but these are all illusions. Don’t “Pay attention,” Agatha finally stopped near the sailor’s head and

looked down at the mummy lying in the center of the triangle. “Finally, you will see the twilight-like light, which is the only color in the country of the dead.” ‘, at that time, the “gatekeeper” on this side will come.

“Remember what I told you, don’t go with him – let me negotiate with the captain for the rest.”